We've just finished pulling down all our Halloween decorations so today i'll share our first ever Halloween experience with you all. I've always thought all the American celebrations looked like so much fun so when we were deciding on a theme for Lexi's 6th birthday party i thought it would be the perfect opportunity to go all out.
First step (of course) was to make the invites. i just used some images off a web search, Microsoft word and some clever rhymes to create the design, screen shot and crop the image and then sent the image to a photo printing company to be printed on some gloss paper.
We invited all of Lexi's cousins, some neighbours and a few of her school friends so roughly there was 19 kids. I ended up hiring a couple of kids height trestle tables and some small green and purple plastic chairs from perth kids party hire and then set the tables with orange and black tableware which looked amazing! For the food table i grabbed a trestle table from the garage that the Reindl man had been using as a work bench, taped streamers on the edge to make a table skirt and then put a tablecloth as well as a spooky material scrap.
For decoration I went on a pinning spree and made heaps of things that you can find on my Halloween pintrest board such as some Styrofoam tombstones, paper mache ghost, spider and witch, apocrathy jars, cardboard bats, rope spider webs, mini jack-o-lanterns and my favorite, the body bag!
We had a heap of Halloween themed food also. Vomiting jack-o-lantern guacamole, sponge finger mummys, pumpkin biscuits, zombie poop meringues, pretzel 'bones', 'blood' jelly shots, witchy fairy bread, a gingerbread haunted house, a giant pumpkin cake, monster broth juice with eye balls, chocolate dipped strawberry ghosts, spider web pizza, finger buns, worms, pumpkin poop and graveyard dip.
I created a boardwalk style cut out for the kids to have their photos taken in, we played pin the bow tie on Mr Bones, beanbag relays and musical gargoyles. the kids all had an absolute ball and i finally got to have a big Halloween celebration. With the amount of time, effort and money i put into this party, I don't think we'll be going all out for another party until lexi turns ten haha!
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